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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/eugebra on 2025-04-26 11:49:37+00:00.
This happened some months ago, and i remebered it while reading some ot the posts here.
So, i'm a forklift driver in a factory that produces chemical products for building and construction, adhesives, sealants, cement, etc...
my job basically consist in providing the workers with everything they need to continue production. my department produces adhesives and my shift has circa 20 people, so i'm constantly moving back and forth between the warehouse, the department and everywhere else we stock the materials.
In the time this happened, our managers started to pressure us on the use of phones, which many people did use a lot, and some were really exxagerating with it. i used it in the slow moments, or while i was waiting for something, obviously not while driving, and i had to keep it near me because the bosses needed to reach for me while i was away from the department for various tasks.
They really became very strict on the use of phones, and a guy got even a formal complaint for it (3 compaints in a single year gets you fired).
Malicious compliance: i simply shut off the phone at the start of the shift and only turned it on while on break.
Now, i didn't specify how BIG my workplace is, it's 1,4million square feet, and sometime it took me even 10 minutes to go where i needed to go and come back and i received like 30 calls a day that were simply left unanswered. my managers were going mad but they couldn't do shit because they imposed the rule.
EDIT since i saw them mentioned. They provided us with walkie-takies, but the obviously needed to be charged, and since we are working on 3 rotating shifts, they were never fully charged and died after an hour.